Family Forum / Marriage / Marriage / May 2006

Text on a process of change that I want to share with the group. It's
very much like the process of changing things about myself that I go
through relatively often.
You can find a the full text at the link below. It has a lot more then

We have been married for almost two years. Things r fine. This is first
marriage of both of us.
We both work, and we dont have any kids.
But she doesn't want kids, and I do. She just doesn't feel any interest

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I do appreciate your jumping in and taking my side in quite a few recent
posts.  But I have to ask -- why?!
I admit it doesn't seem to help much for me to jump in and say "that's not
what I meant" but I can't see how your saying, even though you have usually

Part of my daily meditation (when I do it, which I admit is less
disciplined than it ought to be) is to jot down the high and low points
of the day -- where was I energized, bouyed up, thankful vs. unhappy,
out of sorts, angry, sad, etc.  Last night and this morning give a good

I'd been looking for ways to raise money .I found text similar to this
posted in another group and thought I'd try it..When I read this I was
very skeptical, but desperate-- I invested EXACTLY $7.92 ... six $1.00
bills and six 32 cent postage stamps ... and boy am I glad I did!!! I

Looks like a few of us still need to learn that old school value of....
If you (generic) choose not to talk to me, then don't talk about me
(generic).
(and yeah, I slip up on that one on occasion, too)

On this ng, several times, I've heard people say "Everyone wants attention".
Now, maybe I'm reading something into that statement that isn't meant, but,
as I interpret it, I don't think I agree with it.
I don't think everyone wants attention for attention's sake (which is how I

Buzz off.  I don't answer your questions because I don't have the time
or energy to follow your tortured logic and self-important amateur
psychoanalyzing.  Yes, there are germs of useful things in what you
say, and every once in awhile I feel I'm doing you a disservice by

Our daughter was invited on a camping trip this weekend and was going
to stay for one night.  We debated high and low whether or not to let
her go for several reasons and agreed to it.  She also ended up staying
an extra night which resulted in my husband and I spending two full

me and my wife have been married for 2 years now. she never had a
penetrative orgasm, except once or twice, but then she didnt acctually
felt it... until recently, she was able to orgasm via other ways of
stimulation... but lately, cunnulingus doesnt work, and she says she

Having been together with my GF a couple of years she thinks it's about
time to get married or move on and I'm utterly confused about what I
should do.
Having been single for many years, and in my late thirties a lot of

Ok here it is people .I have been married to my wife for about amost 4
yrs now .But have been living with her for sevral yrs including living
with her mother also before we got our own place together .Now this all
starts out as fine in the begining when we got our own apartment  ...

I just read a letter that went something like this: "You report that
the latest fad in living arrangements is for the man to provide housing
in exchange for the woman cooking and cleaning, no sex involved. This
has been around for quite some time. It's called marriage."

I am once again wondering about where my marriage is going.  My wife
has just told me that she doesn't think of me as a husband, but as a
replacement father.  That may be weird, but it makes sense of what she
has been saying for years, for example, the argument that sex is